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Course Coordinator: Jo Perry
Phone: +61 8 8313 2010
Email: jo.perry@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Adelaide Nursing School, 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide

School Office
Phone: +61 8 8313 3595
Email: nursing@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 4, AHMS Building

This course goes over 12 weeks of the semester, with a possible week 13 depending on presentation timing. Lectures are presented online and tutorials are conducted online.

Topics to be covered include:

1. ACORN/NHQHS Standards
2. Perioperative stages of care
3. Perioperative Roles
4. Intraoperative patient care
5. Perioperative pharmacology
6. Anaesthetic patient care
7. Recovery patient care
8. Care of instruments/Endoscopy
9. Minimally invasive surgery
10. Haemostasis, sutures and staples
11. Wound closure (including drains), dressings and wound care
12. Specimen care

1	Define perioperative nursing delivery parameters
2	Evaluate the logistics of perioperative nursing within a professional global paradigm
3	Explore applications of National Standards to perioperative nursing
4	Examine the various roles and responsibilities of perioperative nurses
5	Discuss core duties of the perioperative nurse, specifically in the operating theatre
6	Describe the patient perioperative journey and how perioperative nurses support it
7	Demonstrate a minimal practical competency
8	Describe specific practice considerations in surgical interventions including haemostasis, pharmacology and wound care
9	Practice collaborative professional dialogue
10	Debate perioperative practice issues
11	Devise and construct peer education materials
12	Evaluate the logistics of perioperative nursing within a global paradigm

This course will require the following texts and other resources:

Prescribed texts
Hamlin, L., Richardson-Tench, M. & Davies, M. 2016. Perioperative Nursing – An Introduction, 2nd Ed., Elsevier 最新糖心Vlog, Chatswood, NSW

Electronic version (Ebook) available

Reader
The readings for this course are available electronically via MyUni.
Please note: it is your responsibility to organise printing should you prefer a hard copy of the reader

Clinical skills portfolio:
Elsevier Clinical Skills Portfolio: Perioperative
Link available from CANVAS

Perioperative
最新糖心Vlogn College of Operating Room Nursing (ACORN), 2017-2018, ACORN standards for perioperative nursing, ACORN, Adelaide.

Phillips, N & Sedlak, PK 2015, Surgical instrumentation, Delmar Cengage, Clifton Park.
Rothrock 2011, Alexander’s care of the patient in surgery, 14th edition, Mosby, St. Louis.

Anaesthetic Practice
Aitkenhead, AR Smith, G & Rowbotham, DJ 2007, Textbook of anaesthesia, (5th edition) Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh.

Postanaesthesia Recovery Practice
Schick, L & Windle, PE 2010, Perianesthesia nursing core curriculum: preprocedure, phase I and II PACU nursing, (2nd edition), WB Saunders, St. Louis.

Note: You are not required to buy recommended texts. However, they provide valuable supplementary reading on various aspects of the material covered within this course and you are encouraged to have a look at them.

Online Lecture Content
The lecture content associated with this course is accessible from within the lecture content section of this course available via the MyUni website.

Please note that the required lecture content for this course will be made available within MyUni. Each week’s sessions are designed to go ‘live’ on the Friday immediately prior to the academic week (i.e. if the week starts on Monday 10 March 2014, then that week’s content will be available from Friday 7 March 2014).

Please listen to the content as presented and look at the associated handouts and websites to develop your own notes for this course. You are strongly advised to have completed all preparatory requirements prior to all Virtual Classroom sessions to gain maximum benefit.

Online Classroom Tutorials
The online classroom (Zoom) technology will be used for tutorial discussions on a weekly basis during this semester. Some information on the Zoom Classroom should have been provided to you, you need to familiarise yourself with this technology to become reasonably comfortable with using it prior to the start of the semester.

Canvas
All students enrolled in a postgraduate coursework nursing program have access to the School of Nursing – Postgraduate Coursework Student Centre on Canvas. If you would like the opportunity to network with other students, you can use the Communication features in the site. This site will also feature information about the latest news and events at the School of Nursing.

Unified
http://unified.adelaide.edu.au/
UNIFIED is your one-stop shop for email, calendar, MyUni and Access Adelaide. It even allows you to search the Library.
UNIFIED is available to all active students; with a single login you can access your student systems and personal information through a central website. Login with your Student ID ("a1234567") and Password.

For more information, including easy to follow instructions visit https://unified.adelaide.edu.au/web/mycampus/home.

Library Resources
Help for Nursing Students
The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Library has a website to help nursing students use the library and its resource (www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/med/nursing).

Remote student library service
The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Library provides a document delivery and loans service to non-metropolitan students who do not visit a 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide campus to attend classes (www.adelaide.edu.au/library/docdel/external.html).

This course will be delivered through the following means:

1. Flexible delivery mode with Online Classroom contact
2. Lecture content will be self running online presentations linked to relevant electronic resources such as professional documents, websites and e-books.
3. Online Classroom contact will be to discuss the content for the week and to discuss how students would apply the knowledge into their clinical practice setting.

It is expected that you will need to invest about 24 hours per week of study to successfully complete this course. This includes all study activities, virtual classrooms, readings and assessment. Thus some weeks it will be more and others less. It is recommended that you plan your time commitment to the course at the beginning of the semester.

As a discrete specialty, perioperative nurses will develop the skills of examining broad standards of care and being able to apply the core tenets of best practice to the surgical pathway. With each topic, there is an exploration of how evidence based interventions directly contribute to patient outcomes, and the role that perioperative nurses play in that.

The 12 weeks cover the following content, based upon a  surgical patient pathway:

1. Perioperative stages of care
2. ACORN Standards
3. NHQHS Standards
4. Perioperative roles (including advanced roles)
5. Anaesthesia/Recovery patient care
6. Endoscopy in the perioperative environment
7. Research Literacy, Professional Practice and Knowledge Translation in the perioperative specialty
8. Haemostasis in surgery (including sutures and staplers)
9. Pharmacology in surgery
10. Specimen care
11. Wound closure (including drains)
12. Dressings and wound care

There is a clinical component of this course, whereby the student in their workplace gets their skills book signed off where they have demonstrated a minimal level of competency in their role. The competencies are desgned to be reflective of a sound understanding of theoretical underpinnings of practice.

The Zoom Classroom tutorials are run as a small group, and contained within each tutorial is a plan which includes discussion and debate of each prescribed topic for the week, and activites designed to promote reflection and critical analysis of relevant issues.

Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning Outcome(s) being addressed
Essay Plan	Formative	0%
Essay	Summative	30%
Learning Portfolio A	Summative	25%
Learning Portfolio B	Summative	25%
Education Guide and Presentation	Summative	20%
Clinical Skills Checklist		NGP/NGF

It is highly recommended that each student view the lecture and review the required reading each week in order to come to the online classroom prepared. Rich discussions and analysis occurs when everyone is familiar with the topic and major issues to be explored.

Assessment 1: ESSAY PLAN

Topic
Each week of this course covers a different tenet of perioperative practice. There are questions for each week which will
guide your portfolio submissions. Do not use one of these for your essay. These are designed to address specific practice areas as based on the readings.

As you reflect on the topics presented over the semester, you may have an issue of your own which arises in your practice,
and you would like to investigate for your essay. Or you may pick a topic from one of the 12 covered in this course, then isolate an issue of concern for you from within that topic.

You will be required to write an essay about your issue of concern. At the end of Week 3 it is expected that you have read through the study guide, and have started to formulate your essay topic. You will submit the topic you have chosen, search strategy for literature about your topic, and a plan for your essay.

The expectations of this essay are that you follow the following process:

1.   Choose a broad topic (e.g. medication labelling)

2.   Refer to the relevant NHQHS Standard for broad application, then consider how that standard applies in the perioperative environment.

3.   What elements of the chosen topic require context specific policy support?

4.   How can ACORN and NHQHS standards be upheld in your specific workplace?

5.   How would these policies contribute to optimal patient outcomes?

You may put your plan in bullet point form, but please note that there is an expectation of format as set out in the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide writing guides. You need to include aspects of your planned direction for content and discussion. You will also need to include 5 of the references found in your preliminary search strategy.

The essay is to be submitted in full later in the semester. You can expect feedback on your essay proposal approximately 1-2
weeks after submission.


Assessment 2: ESSAY

Topic
For this course, you will be required to critically analyse a topic relevant to your practice in the perioperative environment. Base your choice on a single aspect from the National Standards (ACORN and NHQHS). For example, you may choose “medication labelling”.  Within that topic, there are several applications of national standards. The NHQHS gives broad recommendations for medication labelling, as well as some prescriptive points which are perioperative context-specific. Reflect on how these standards could be applied in your workplace. Could these recommendations be implemented within the ACORN Standards? Is there already a policy in place for the 2018/2019 National Standards changes? Does the policy need to be updated? What aspects would need to be altered/ Why? Are the policy changes evidence based? What would that look like in your workplace? What are barriers and
facilitating factors for compliance with the policy changes which will come with the updated National Standards?

Another way of thinking of a topic may come from the following reflection:

Think of an occasion in your practice where there was a deviation from the standard. Explain what happened, what circumstances led to this deviation, and how it was addressed. This will entail examining the situation from multiple perspectives (nursing, admin, medical etc), and on several different levels (individual, institution, wider health care policy). You cannot discuss a scenario which has been explored in class, or one from an article. This must be based on your own clinical experience. Review the core elements of the situation with reference to the National Standards.

The purpose of this essay is for you to analyse a single aspect of perioperative practice and examine how that aspect can be supported by a robust policy in accordance with National Standards.

This critical analysis should take a discussion form, giving multiple perspectives and be based on research and best practice.

The expectation is that this essay will be centred around evidence based practice, and involve a critical discussion of the topic, including current references to the literature surrounding it.

Please refer to the presentation “Essay Writing 101” for further information about essay writing and referencing. Also, there are many comprehensive resources available online from the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide Writing Centre.

Assessment 3 Learning Portfolio A
Students are expected to submit a portfolio of activities. Students must choose at least ONE activity to complete for EACH of the 12 weeks within the course. You are encouraged to plan your work and complete your activity of choice on a weekly basis. The portfolio is to be submitted in two parts; Part A covering activities from Week 1 through to Week 6, and Part B covering activities from Week 7 to Week 12.

Assessment 4 Learning Portfolio B
Students are expected to submit a portfolio of activities. Students must choose at least ONE activity to complete for EACH of the 12 weeks within the course. You are encouraged to plan your work and complete your activity of choice on a weekly basis. The portfolio is to be submitted in two parts; Part A covering activities from Week 1 through to Week 6, and Part B covering activities from Week 7 to Week 12. This will be much more conducive to your learning than grouping activities together.

Assessment 5 Education Guide and Presentation
In the perioperative environment we have certain pieces of equipment or instrumentation which we use infrequently, yet when we do, a background instruction and troubleshooting guide to refresh us since the last time we used it would be prudent. For this assignment, you will choose an instrument or piece of equipment which is not used frequently, which many are unfamiliar with, or there are poor instructions for use on. For this instrument/equipment you will then research, by means of inservice from the rep, internet resources from the company or other means, the normal instructions for use and troubleshooting. You will then write a 2 page quick reference instructional guide for the chosen item. On page 1 will be the instructions for use, and on page 2 will be the troubleshooting guide. You will submit your two pages by the end of Week 10 in a Microsoft Word form. You will then be required to present your guide to your classmates in Week 13 of the Online Classroom session. This will be in a PowerPoint format. You will submit your PowerPoint presentation by Week 10.

Assignments must be submitted in electronic format to the Course Coordinator via email only.

An Assignment Coversheet must be submitted with each assessment. The coversheet should be the first page of your assessment. A word version of the Assignment Coversheet is available to download at www.health.adelaide.edu.au/nursing/students/resources. The Plagiarism Statement must be signed and dated for your assessment to be marked (please note the details stated on the Assignment Coversheet). More information on avoiding Plagiarism is available at www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/plagiarism/.

Plagiarism
Students are reminded that plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty constitute a serious offence and can result in disciplinary procedures. Students are advised to read the policy Academic Honesty and Assessment Obligations for Coursework Students Policy & Coursework Students: Academic Dishonesty Procedures policy, available at www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/230/. The following definitions should be noted.

Referencing: providing a full bibliographic reference to the source of the citation (in a style as determined by the School).
Quotation: placing an excerpt from an original source into a paper using either quotation marks or indentation, with the source cited, using an approved referencing system in order to give credit to the original author.
Paraphrasing: repeating a section of text using different words which retain the original meaning.
Please note: changing just a few words does not constitute paraphrasing.